In some of the healings reported by Mrs. Eddy there were comments that the person healed was then a better person, implying that their moral outlook had been changed. Is this an objective of modern-day practitioners? —A READER IN WASHINGTON, US
A1 A healing is really an improvement of our sense of God. Human sense is not fully aware of the totality of God, good. Human sense accepts the concept of a mind apart or separate from God, which we call mortal mind. Because mortal mind is not fully aware of God's allness, this mind accepts the supposed existence of sickness, sin, and death, which argue for the absence of God.
When a healing occurs—the effect of the Christ light dawning in the human consciousness—some of the beliefs of mortal mind are destroyed [though they were never really there to start with!]; our consciousness is purified. As this happens, we become more like the children of God that we truly are.
